Effectiveness of feral animal fences queried

INGLEWOOD Shire Mayor Joan White is anxious a lack of planning and funding is impacting on the effectiveness of three feral animal barrier fences.

She's calling for an alliance of the councils, including her cousins in Toowoomba, to preserve the wild dog barrier fence, the wild dog check fences and the Darling Downs-Moreton Board rabbit fence.

'While it is difficult to estimate the total benefits of all the fences, a study by EconSearch for the Department of Natural Resources in 2000 estimated the net economic benefit of the wild dog fence was $3.75 million in 1997-98.

'Most businesses in the city are affected directly or indirectly by primary production.